And people want babies, not children. Babies, especially ones of the right color, are actually hard to come by. What's _not_ hard to come by are kids ages 6 and up who come from broken homes. Most of the time they end up in phoney foster care homes that are really small scale orphanages (know people making a good living running these). Nobody wants them because they're full of problems from the rough upbringing and, well, they're not cute babies. It's a screwed up situation all around.
That seems like awfully small potatoes. Especially for a company like Uber. I can't imagine it's too hard to dig up dirt on them, and it might not be a bad idea to pay more so the bugs don't show up in the black market first. I could see many a journalist (real ones, not the pro-Uber corporate ones on major networks) getting their hands on all sorts of fun stuff.
we've acknowledged him as the legitimate ruler of North Korea. That's what this was about. As soon as Trump said he'd meet with Kim, Kim won. He doesn't need the nukes any more. He's still got enough firepower to flatten South Korea, so he's still got his hostage situation. The nukes were just a trick to get us to the table and to get us to legitimize his reign. Worked too.
On the one hand I should be upset we're giving approval to yet another dictatorship. On the other hand NK is hardly the first and Trump just got outmaneuvered and lost his shot at an Iraq style war. On the other other hand there's still Iran, and they don't have a hostage to protect them.
that gave me cable, Internet & phone for $100 bucks a month back then. Same bundle is around $250 now. So you nailed it on the head. You can keep your swampland. I'm sure you paid a lot for it.
by $20-$60 dollars in my area by imposing bandwidth caps. Their costs hadn't raised a dime, this was just a cash grab because the current (Republican) administration isn't likely to regulate them for abusing their duopoly (yeah, there's one other provider, who's exactly as bad).
I know it's not popular to call a political party out by name around here, but what else can I call it? I had 8 years of steady prices (going up a buck here, a buck there) and as soon as the Rs where in charge *blam*, $big raises. I've got biz class and the next time my contract's up It'll be $160/mo. Meanwhile Cox lobbies the Rs to prevent muni broadband and any competition whatsoever.
These are the same folks who killed Net Neutrality and just deregulated Wallstreet (albeit with the help of some Corporate Dems like that bitch Pelosi and that bastard Schumer). Enough already. There comes a time when you call a spade a spade. Vote Bernie's party. Listen to him and his and vote there. Or stop bitching about getting screwed by mega corps.
want college & vocational schools free. Bernie's New Deal, where everybody who wants to work gets a job at $15/hr with benefits, is another extension of this. It's 2018, we should be able to do this by now.
An EE or ME degree is _way_ more training than you need even to be a journeyman. I apprenticed as an electrician for a bit before going back into IT and you just worked your way up. An EE or ME is for large scale factory work, basic science and other advanced jobs.
Now, that said I work with several EE and ME engineers who couldn't find work in their fields. There aren't a lot of jobs doing basic science since we cut all the government funding and it was never really the private sector who did that sort of thing. And we shipped all the factories overseas so there's no much high end factory work for them (e.g. running the production line). Hell, that's half the problem with finding a good IT job (the other half is H1-Bs & oursourcing). Your competing with EE and ME guys for code monkeying.
so it's not a waste of time. Bottom line, employers require a degree so that they can go running to Congress for more H1-Bs with the cry "But there's not enough qualified applicants!". And it works, too.
They're a right wing propaganda machine. I know it's not popular to call people out for that, we're supposed to be nice and respect their free speech, but I calls it like I sees it. Anything I see from them is highly suspect. They're as pro corporate and anti-worker as it gets.
and now that we know why iPhones get slow over time the sames true there. What I want is longer battery life, better connections and faster downloads. And we're a decade out from the last two (waiting for spectrum rollout) and I think we've peaked on battery life. I don't need a faster GPU. I really don't care what my phone games look like.
when Clinton (Bill) moved the party to the right to get the money he needed to win the presidency. You didn't notice all the awful shit he did because the.com boom was happening and the economy was doing so well nobody noticed it. You noticed it in 2008 when his Wallstreet Deregulation finally caught up with us and the world economy collapsed....
If you are actually left (meaning you believe food, shelter, health care, education & transportation are natural rights) then you are now _far_ left. If you're a libertarian type... well, that's not being leftist, that's being "everyman for himself"ist. You're either going to eventually admit that folks have a right to a decent life (and be leftist) or button down and declare that society shouldn't guarantee anyone anything. Even if you don't do that it's the inevitable consequence of libertarianism. You get outmaneuvered by the corportists and the ruling class because your goals are too vague.
you need one foreman for a couple dozen guys. The only time your hypothetical plumber is needed is for a big job. Small jobs the young guys can estimate. Now, if the country and economy were expanding a ton you might have a point. But we're just not building very much anymore. To be blunt, we're not doing much of anything besides giving rich people tax cuts and new ways to do the Dutch Sandwich.
this is brutally hard work. With the exception of a few genetic freaks you're not going to be doing it in your 50s let alone your 60s. And you're not going to be packing away much on $50k in Seattle. Not when you start having kids.
$50k/yr in Seattle in 2018 is not high paying. This is a young guy with no real bills yet. No kid's college fund, parents still alive to help out with the occasional emergency like a totaled car. Not trying to buy a house in a neighborhood with good schools. Etc, etc.
I've read the median needed for a stable middle class life is around $100k. I'm making close to that after 40 years of struggling and I can tell you it's about right. You don't realize how hard it is when you haven't spent the first 20 working years building wealth.
Got any examples of them saying anything that is not true and then doubling down on it instead of issuing a correction like a proper journalistic outfit does, because I haven't seen them report on anything that wasn't veritably true. Hell, that's half the problem with Left Wing media. They've got journalistic principles, so even guy's like the Turks will present both sides a lot of time time. That Secular Talk guy goes out of his way to praise right wingers when they do something right, like when they stand up for free speech.
There's a lot of bad shit going on right now and they're covering it. Just because you don't like believing it's real doesn't mean it isn't. As Gore Vidal said, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a conspiracy analyst.
so they're still right wing there. The leaders of the Democratic party are right wing too. The mega corps have bought out everything, so they control the message. Hell, they guy who runs the Consumer Protection Bureau just openly admitted to accepting bribes and it was barely covered. NY Times, WAPO and the left wing Youtubers covered it. CNN buried it in an opinion piece. You'd think this would be national news.
because our right wing, pro corporate media doesn't cover it. I only know about it because a video blog on youtube called "Extra Credits" covered it. It's horrifying, but what can I do about it? Are we going to punish China for it? No, we are not. We need their cheap goods to maintain our meager quality of life in the face of globalism. This isn't going to change how anyone on this _forum_ votes much less in the country.
hear me out on this one. Yes, the media leans left on social issues (gay rights and abortion mostly). But for anything that really matters (e.g. economics) they're entirely pro corporate. Hell, it's come out that MSNBC, the supposed bastion of the left wing, actively blocked coverage of Bernie Sanders in favor of his pro-corporate rival Hillary. Also, there's every indication we bombed an anti-venom factory in Syria but not a single major news source covered that.
These days in America if you want any news that isn't pro corp you need to go on Youtube. Bernie's got a channel along with the Young Turks & Secular Talk who are more or less arms of the Democratic Party's left wing (aka the "Justice Democrats" as they're called). But what's funny is you can't shake that "Left Wing Media bias" moniker even though it's objectively not true on economics.
is Trump's administration denying more requests a good thing because they're denying bad requests or a bad thing because they're making so many outlandish requests. No real telling since it's a secret court.
there were decades of poverty, social strife and war following the various industrial revolutions.
It takes a long time to replace jobs lost to automation. Entire new industries had to be created. Somebody in their 70s doesn't really care that somebody in their 20s can make a living on eSports or drone racing today if they were unemployed 50 years ago.
and we perceive this as an "Intellectual Property" case. It wouldn't be hard to convince a jury of Americans to convict. Especially if they guy's lawyer wasn't very good. He should have plead out like most people do. Unless you're very, very rich you don't go before a jury in this country.
mega corps own all the media. I've complained about a right wing, pro corporate bias in media when it comes to economics, but people laugh at me when I do. This is what I'm talking about. Well, this and stuff like this. That last one went viral. Doesn't look like this will. There isn't a funny video for it on youtube.
Slashdot Mirror
And people want babies, not children. Babies, especially ones of the right color, are actually hard to come by. What's _not_ hard to come by are kids ages 6 and up who come from broken homes. Most of the time they end up in phoney foster care homes that are really small scale orphanages (know people making a good living running these). Nobody wants them because they're full of problems from the rough upbringing and, well, they're not cute babies. It's a screwed up situation all around.
That seems like awfully small potatoes. Especially for a company like Uber. I can't imagine it's too hard to dig up dirt on them, and it might not be a bad idea to pay more so the bugs don't show up in the black market first. I could see many a journalist (real ones, not the pro-Uber corporate ones on major networks) getting their hands on all sorts of fun stuff.
if you've got kids you know exactly what I'm talking about. This is what that's about.
we've acknowledged him as the legitimate ruler of North Korea. That's what this was about. As soon as Trump said he'd meet with Kim, Kim won. He doesn't need the nukes any more. He's still got enough firepower to flatten South Korea, so he's still got his hostage situation. The nukes were just a trick to get us to the table and to get us to legitimize his reign. Worked too.
On the one hand I should be upset we're giving approval to yet another dictatorship. On the other hand NK is hardly the first and Trump just got outmaneuvered and lost his shot at an Iraq style war. On the other other hand there's still Iran, and they don't have a hostage to protect them.
that gave me cable, Internet & phone for $100 bucks a month back then. Same bundle is around $250 now. So you nailed it on the head. You can keep your swampland. I'm sure you paid a lot for it.
doesn't mean you have it any better. Your quality of life is an _objective_ thing. It's not subjective.
by $20-$60 dollars in my area by imposing bandwidth caps. Their costs hadn't raised a dime, this was just a cash grab because the current (Republican) administration isn't likely to regulate them for abusing their duopoly (yeah, there's one other provider, who's exactly as bad).
I know it's not popular to call a political party out by name around here, but what else can I call it? I had 8 years of steady prices (going up a buck here, a buck there) and as soon as the Rs where in charge *blam*, $big raises. I've got biz class and the next time my contract's up It'll be $160/mo. Meanwhile Cox lobbies the Rs to prevent muni broadband and any competition whatsoever.
These are the same folks who killed Net Neutrality and just deregulated Wallstreet (albeit with the help of some Corporate Dems like that bitch Pelosi and that bastard Schumer). Enough already. There comes a time when you call a spade a spade. Vote Bernie's party. Listen to him and his and vote there. Or stop bitching about getting screwed by mega corps.
want college & vocational schools free. Bernie's New Deal, where everybody who wants to work gets a job at $15/hr with benefits, is another extension of this. It's 2018, we should be able to do this by now.
it's called the H2-B visa.
An EE or ME degree is _way_ more training than you need even to be a journeyman. I apprenticed as an electrician for a bit before going back into IT and you just worked your way up. An EE or ME is for large scale factory work, basic science and other advanced jobs.
Now, that said I work with several EE and ME engineers who couldn't find work in their fields. There aren't a lot of jobs doing basic science since we cut all the government funding and it was never really the private sector who did that sort of thing. And we shipped all the factories overseas so there's no much high end factory work for them (e.g. running the production line). Hell, that's half the problem with finding a good IT job (the other half is H1-Bs & oursourcing). Your competing with EE and ME guys for code monkeying.
so it's not a waste of time. Bottom line, employers require a degree so that they can go running to Congress for more H1-Bs with the cry "But there's not enough qualified applicants!". And it works, too.
They're a right wing propaganda machine. I know it's not popular to call people out for that, we're supposed to be nice and respect their free speech, but I calls it like I sees it. Anything I see from them is highly suspect. They're as pro corporate and anti-worker as it gets.
and now that we know why iPhones get slow over time the sames true there. What I want is longer battery life, better connections and faster downloads. And we're a decade out from the last two (waiting for spectrum rollout) and I think we've peaked on battery life. I don't need a faster GPU. I really don't care what my phone games look like.
when Clinton (Bill) moved the party to the right to get the money he needed to win the presidency. You didn't notice all the awful shit he did because the .com boom was happening and the economy was doing so well nobody noticed it. You noticed it in 2008 when his Wallstreet Deregulation finally caught up with us and the world economy collapsed....
If you are actually left (meaning you believe food, shelter, health care, education & transportation are natural rights) then you are now _far_ left. If you're a libertarian type... well, that's not being leftist, that's being "everyman for himself"ist. You're either going to eventually admit that folks have a right to a decent life (and be leftist) or button down and declare that society shouldn't guarantee anyone anything. Even if you don't do that it's the inevitable consequence of libertarianism. You get outmaneuvered by the corportists and the ruling class because your goals are too vague.
you need one foreman for a couple dozen guys. The only time your hypothetical plumber is needed is for a big job. Small jobs the young guys can estimate. Now, if the country and economy were expanding a ton you might have a point. But we're just not building very much anymore. To be blunt, we're not doing much of anything besides giving rich people tax cuts and new ways to do the Dutch Sandwich.
this is brutally hard work. With the exception of a few genetic freaks you're not going to be doing it in your 50s let alone your 60s. And you're not going to be packing away much on $50k in Seattle. Not when you start having kids.
$50k/yr in Seattle in 2018 is not high paying. This is a young guy with no real bills yet. No kid's college fund, parents still alive to help out with the occasional emergency like a totaled car. Not trying to buy a house in a neighborhood with good schools. Etc, etc.
I've read the median needed for a stable middle class life is around $100k. I'm making close to that after 40 years of struggling and I can tell you it's about right. You don't realize how hard it is when you haven't spent the first 20 working years building wealth.
Got any examples of them saying anything that is not true and then doubling down on it instead of issuing a correction like a proper journalistic outfit does, because I haven't seen them report on anything that wasn't veritably true. Hell, that's half the problem with Left Wing media. They've got journalistic principles, so even guy's like the Turks will present both sides a lot of time time. That Secular Talk guy goes out of his way to praise right wingers when they do something right, like when they stand up for free speech.
There's a lot of bad shit going on right now and they're covering it. Just because you don't like believing it's real doesn't mean it isn't. As Gore Vidal said, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a conspiracy analyst.
so they're still right wing there. The leaders of the Democratic party are right wing too. The mega corps have bought out everything, so they control the message. Hell, they guy who runs the Consumer Protection Bureau just openly admitted to accepting bribes and it was barely covered. NY Times, WAPO and the left wing Youtubers covered it. CNN buried it in an opinion piece. You'd think this would be national news.
because our right wing, pro corporate media doesn't cover it. I only know about it because a video blog on youtube called "Extra Credits" covered it. It's horrifying, but what can I do about it? Are we going to punish China for it? No, we are not. We need their cheap goods to maintain our meager quality of life in the face of globalism. This isn't going to change how anyone on this _forum_ votes much less in the country.
hear me out on this one. Yes, the media leans left on social issues (gay rights and abortion mostly). But for anything that really matters (e.g. economics) they're entirely pro corporate. Hell, it's come out that MSNBC, the supposed bastion of the left wing, actively blocked coverage of Bernie Sanders in favor of his pro-corporate rival Hillary. Also, there's every indication we bombed an anti-venom factory in Syria but not a single major news source covered that.
These days in America if you want any news that isn't pro corp you need to go on Youtube. Bernie's got a channel along with the Young Turks & Secular Talk who are more or less arms of the Democratic Party's left wing (aka the "Justice Democrats" as they're called). But what's funny is you can't shake that "Left Wing Media bias" moniker even though it's objectively not true on economics.
is Trump's administration denying more requests a good thing because they're denying bad requests or a bad thing because they're making so many outlandish requests. No real telling since it's a secret court.
there were decades of poverty, social strife and war following the various industrial revolutions.
It takes a long time to replace jobs lost to automation. Entire new industries had to be created. Somebody in their 70s doesn't really care that somebody in their 20s can make a living on eSports or drone racing today if they were unemployed 50 years ago.
and we perceive this as an "Intellectual Property" case. It wouldn't be hard to convince a jury of Americans to convict. Especially if they guy's lawyer wasn't very good. He should have plead out like most people do. Unless you're very, very rich you don't go before a jury in this country.
mega corps own all the media. I've complained about a right wing, pro corporate bias in media when it comes to economics, but people laugh at me when I do. This is what I'm talking about. Well, this and stuff like this. That last one went viral. Doesn't look like this will. There isn't a funny video for it on youtube.